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I am interested in applying Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) for classification analysis of gene expression data. I am relatively new to R (and Bioconductor packages) and I am unable to find some code or vignette that I can use to learn from. I will be thankful if someone can point me in a good direction.

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I would suggest looking at the BayesTree package, from CRAN. I have no experience with it, so I cannot say if there are better option from there. Try looking at the Machine Learning Task View, or directly through www.rseek.org.

I don't know anything approaching in Bioconductor, but if the above package suits your needs I guess you won't have any problem with gene expression data. I know the CMA package offer a full-featured pipeline for supervised classification (see e.g., CMA - A comprehensive Bioconductor package for super- vised classification with high dimensional data, by Slawski et al.). Maybe you can plug BART method in addition to the available methods?

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    $\begingroup$ BayesTree is done by the inventors of BART, I believe. But the bartMachine package looks like a better option to me. (The only downside is it requires Java and interfaces to it via the rJava package, which might complicate things if your machine doesn't have Java installed.) $\endgroup$
    – Wayne
    Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 22:02
  • $\begingroup$ The BART and dbartspackages are reasonable alternatives nowadays. $\endgroup$
    – usεr11852
    Commented Dec 17, 2022 at 3:41

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